i’ve been asleep for most of this week it feels like, leaving john foreman to greet visitors to this here page for the last seven days. actually i got seriously sunburnt on sunday and spent part of the week in recovery from some sort of sun overdose. this is precisely the kind of information that you just don’t need to know about. welcome to the blogosphere..

faux pas at the moment is kinda moving in slow motion, me struggling to get back into gear and get things together again. the biggest news this week (and proof that it is a slow news week in the world of faux pas) is that i’ve been judged possibly not important enough for wikipedia. in a perhaps misguided attempt to assuage my ego - i mean, drive more wikipedia visitors to my site (neither motive is noble, it turns out) - i tried to add an article on myself to wikipedia. only a few hours after submitting it, it was tagged by a resident wiki-guru as being potentially unimportant (my words not his/hers). like all tormented artists, i continually struggle to find any meaning in what it is that i do - and being implicitly bagged out by wikipedia doesn’t help. damn you wikipedia! i’ve since read up on the wikipedia’s criteria for importance or ‘notability’ - wonderfully anal and specific (honestly, i do love it) - and now i’m actually pretty sure that i am not important enough for wikipedia. i’ve decided to leave my article there as a testiment to my own stupidity, until such time as a wiki-nerd deems it worth deleting. i have also learnt that there are very specific rules to what makes a porn star notable enough to qualify for the wikipedia, so - take note of them.

and now… i’m going to attempt to make something remotely resembling ‘commentary’, which may become more frequent on this blog if i continue to become more of a wanker (it seems inevitable really)… today was the end of triple j’s oz music month. every november our national youth broadcaster turns its attention to australian artists with a wide range of special features and programs, culminating in a full day of australian-only programming on the last day of the month (today). does anyone else think it would be a great idea if they did this every month? say, on the first day of the month? it wouldn’t alienate triple j’s audience, and it would give a lot of worthy australian artists additional exposure. i caught only snippets of triple j today while i was out in my car, and i heard many artists given a spin that might otherwise be too leftfield to be given a run during regular programming. imagine what a bold statement the station could make by setting aside the first day of every month (including breakfast, drivetime and request) to an australian-only playlist?

of course, lets have some full disclosure here, i’m an arguably leftfield australian artist who could benefit from something like this. but honestly, is this not a totally awesome idea? there seems to be a lot of diverse music around at the moment, and there seems to be a lot more punters who are open to the idea of supporting local artists. and triple j would get to pat itself on the back for supporting australian music even more than it already does. its a win win.